New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-27
Industrial Bre Yttfes.

country.
Industrial Brev1tfes.
Although the best of the public lands
have gone, it is encouraging to note
that there still remain u1lsurVeved
9,OO0,O 900 acres in Colorado, 100000
in Arizona, nearly 30,000,000 in Cali
fornia, 5000, 00O in Dakota, 1000, 900
in Florida. $4,000 900 in Idaho, 7,O00,-
000in Minnesota, 80, 100000 in Nevada,
100000 in Montana, 41,O00.O09 in
Utah, and more than 20,OO0,000 in
Washington territory, aggregatisg
100000 in the states and territories
| mentioned.
A contractor engaged on the grading
| at Langshead's coke-works at Fair
chance, England, is the owner of
horse which possess the remarkable
growth of a flowing mustache on its
upper lip. The animal seems quite
proud of its distinguished feature, and
bites viciously at anyone who attempts
to stroke the hirsute ornament. 1t is
not permitted to put on much style,
however, and is confined to the humble
work Of drawing cart, like the other
horses.
There is a bee disease in Germany
called ..Maikranheit, !" because it is
usually seen in May. The bees have
distended abdome us, because they have
not been able to void their feces, after
partaking of..pollen collected in the
early spring after it had been touched
by frost. A good remedy is to put a
little salicylic acid in syrup and feed it
to them, keeping the hive dry and pre-
venting the accumulation of moisture
inside.
A dust conveyor for thrashers has
been patented BY Mr.. LYMAN A. Miller,
of Carbondale, III. Combined with the.
thrashing cylinder and feed board are a
fan and a fan case with tube having
its vertical portion provided with IN
ward OF rearWardly projecting tubes,
extended to conform. to the lower
side of the feedsboard, and then carried
| upward and rearward to cause it to
overhang3 the feed board.
Oxford down sheep attain to very
heavy weights, the rams at 3 years Of
age reaching as high rs four hundred
pounds and ews three hundred. They
are the largest of the mutton breeds,
and yield a fleece Of medium wool
weighing twenty pounds These
weights are for special individuals that
have been on exhibition, but three
hundred pounds is not an unusual
weight for rams over 2 years old.
Chimney SCOT made from either
wood or coal forms valuable fertil-
izer. 1t contains a large amount Of
ammonia, the coal SCOT more than the
wood, that is always of value to plants
because Of the nitrogen it contains.
Mixed with water it makes a good
fertilizer for house aud other small
plants and is easily applied. Given to
roses it will deepen their color a num-
ber of shades
A farmer informs tie department. of
agriculture that he has evidence lead
ing him to believe that the crows spread
hog cholera. Unless all carcasses be
destroyed by fire, the crows carry
fragments Of flesh to distant points.
He states that he has found pieces of
swine flesh in his fields, apparently
dropped there by crows. which congr
gate i'll large numbers in his section.
Spots can be found all over the pine
hills OF the southern states as healthy
as any forests in the world. Some in
valids are beginning to understand
this fact and profit by it. Atleast a
million invalids and wealthy people in
the north and west weuld winter in
these southern pine hills and on the
gulf shore if they knew the honest
truth about the climate OF the southern
| states.
| R. 0. Gonant, of Portland. Me, is
manufacturing a corn press which is
used in corn factories and which will
till the can with any desired amount in
weight, put in the quantity Of water
land press it in, at the rate Of two thou
sand cans per hour. He is also manu-
,facturing "a distinguishing which
twill husk seventy-fve bushels of corn
in an hour.
/ AT a special meeting of tie Farmers
Hisnstitute for the county OF Ontario,
a'province of t0ntario. Canada, resolsl-
fiticn declaring in favor of the removal
! eaf;all trade restrictions between Can
aida and the Emitted States was carried
unanimously.
Atfarmer in IRELAND, who asas been
experimenting for several years with
| pi4asAly cOHl1fegs hectares That Is is hard
to introduce, hard to exte.minate,
and the hardest COB of all to induce
cattle to eatiitl
Yhe.use of speatffaeI in factories has
increased so greatly in Russia that a
! peat-beg has become more valuable
than a Well-timbered forest. MANY
man afacsurers are giving up the use Of
wood for peat.
a Freach er says that natro-
leum destroys all insects and banishes
rats and aaice, and chat water slightly
impergnated with petroleum applied TO
plants infested with insects will dss-
troy them.
Ducks td,ave best with a running
stream of Wafer to swim In yet they
get along very well with pleanty of
drinking water only, provided there is
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